Enable job alerts via email!

Chef Manager - Larchwood Primary School

Compass Group UK

Essex

On-site

GBP 26,000

8 days ago

Boost your interview chances

Create a job specific, tailored resume for higher success rate.

Job summary

An established industry player is seeking a Chef Manager to join their dedicated team at a primary school. This role offers the chance to create exceptional food experiences for children while enjoying a fantastic work-life balance with a term-time only contract. You'll be responsible for managing kitchen operations, ensuring compliance with health and safety standards, and building strong relationships with clients and customers. With a commitment to fresh, high-quality food and a supportive company culture, this position is perfect for someone passionate about food and customer service. If you're ready to make a difference in children's lives through food, this is the opportunity for you!

Benefits

Holiday Pay

NEST Pension Scheme

Employee Assistance Programme

Consistent Training and Development

Unlock - Discount Membership

Qualifications

  • Passionate about food and great customer service.
  • Experience in managing and developing a large team.

Responsibilities

  • Prepare delicious food and manage kitchen operations.
  • Ensure health & safety compliance and staff training.

Skills

Customer Service

Team Management

Food Preparation

Health & Safety Compliance

Financial Acumen

Education

Relevant Culinary Qualifications

Experience in Catering

Tools

Catering Software Systems

Job description

Pabulum Catering are now recruiting for a Chef Manager to help us deliver exceptional food experiences to our children at Larchwood Primary School.


As a Chef Manager, you will be working in a passionate and hard-working team to create an outstanding experience for our school.


In return we offer an excellent work life balance, support and a fantastic company culture for a business committed to providing healthy food to children. At Pabulum, you’re important; without our employees we wouldn’t be where we are today with such a strong, innovative, and constantly growing business.


With over 120 sites across Southern England there’s plenty of opportunity for you to grow, learn and develop.


Your key responsibilities will include:
  1. Preparing our delicious food
  2. Managing the main aspects of the kitchens including Health & Safety and Training & Development, and you'll have the Unit Bookwork to keep up to date
  3. Receiving and managing food deliveries and managing storage
  4. Developing a great working relationship with clients, team and customers alike to ensure the catering contract you are part of is always growing in the right direction.

Our ideal Chef Manager will be:
  1. Passionate about food and great customer service
  2. A fantastic communicator who works well as part of a team, with excellent supervisory skills being key to managing, developing and motivating a large team
  3. Financially astute, with full training provided in all our processes and software systems
  4. Having a craft background with qualifications/experience to match

Role details and benefits include:
  1. £26,000 per annum
  2. Monday to Friday 7:00 -15:00 hours
  3. Excellent work/life balance due to term time only contract
  4. Holiday pay
  5. NEST pension scheme
  6. Comprehensive Employee Assist Programme
  7. Consistent training and development
  8. Unlock - discount membership

At Pabulum there are three basic ingredients for your role:
  1. The food - We take our values seriously, putting Education, Passion, Sensation, and Innovation at the forefront. 94% of our food is freshly prepared on site every day, using 75% British produce and little or no frozen or processed foods.
  2. The people - Happy customers always come back for more, so we expect you to ensure they have an excellent customer experience.
  3. And you - We are recruiting for a Chef Manager to join our positive and professional team.

As you will be working in Education, you must provide two employment/character references and we’ll also carry out an Enhanced DBS / Criminal Record Check as well (which we’ll pay for).


Interested in becoming part of the Pabulum family?

Please apply online via the advert or email us at Recruitment@pabulum-catering.co.uk


Job Reference: com/1212/42388001/52704641/BU #Pabulum


CH&CO, a part of Compass Group UK&I, is committed to fostering an environment where every individual can truly be themselves at work and has equal opportunities to advance in their careers. We strive to build a culture that respects and celebrates the unique talents, beliefs, backgrounds, and abilities of all our team members. We want our colleagues to feel valued, empowered to reach their full potential, and to thrive. Because diversity is our strength!

Get your free, confidential resume review.
or drag and drop a PDF, DOC, DOCX, ODT, or PAGES file up to 5MB.